Re: Beam Spring 104+SSK Reproduction Project! First Batch In Stock, Shipping early next year after New Model F Project
Posted: 27 Jun 2026, 22:44
Good point about the scope of experience with the reproduction beamspring reviews, those owners have likely never owned an original, let alone multiple originals. I'm curious to try out the reproduction BSSK now since I've owned a total of four original IBM beam spring keyboards (down to two atm). Chyrosan mentioned at the beginning of the video the smoothness difference was huge, then at the end said it was slight so I'm a bit confused.
I've had scratchy beam spring keyboards before and it's usually caused by industrial dust contamination (gritty type) and sometimes excessive use. It would be easy to trouble shoot the new switches by ultrasonically cleaning a few test modules and/or swapping parts until the point source is identified. They should feel almost like contactless switches but I wonder how the tolerances compare to original and if the mold parts that may have been re used or re purposed have any wear vs R1.
I've had scratchy beam spring keyboards before and it's usually caused by industrial dust contamination (gritty type) and sometimes excessive use. It would be easy to trouble shoot the new switches by ultrasonically cleaning a few test modules and/or swapping parts until the point source is identified. They should feel almost like contactless switches but I wonder how the tolerances compare to original and if the mold parts that may have been re used or re purposed have any wear vs R1.